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The Nietzschean multi-universe and beers

So when I made it over to Matt's last night we settled Monty in and then went out and got some beer and food and then when we got back we listened to Pink Floyd who if you haven't heard them well you should but seriously then we talked about philosophy and religion and politics and management theory and quantum physics although I really know very little about quantum physics but we liked to connect our limited understanding of Zen Buddhism and quantum physics the whole thing about multi-universes, and karma, and I brought Nietzsche into the conversation because my hero an existential psychoanalyst who likes his friends to call him Irv but I'm not a friend but hey that'd be amazing well anyway, Nietzsche liked to talk about this mental experiment of imagining that your life repeats infinitely, such that any choice or action or decision you make will be made by you an infinite number of times over an infinite number of photostatted lives which I suppose really makes you think about stuff, like, hey you always wanted to be a mime and go to mime school to fulfill a childhood dream of mimology etc... but you instead stay in a job using a metal punch to create metal grilles for riding lawn-mowers (to use an examplewhich I just came up with), and really what you are doing is deciding that for an infinite number of lives which I guess puts a kind of heavy perspective on your own life so do it right now don't mess around because punching holes in metal plates for eternitysucks but being a mime might notwell I think it might butfor the purposes of this examplejust go with it honestly and I like that whole thing about doingthe things thatare importantso I’m going camping soon.